Anybody else like Grand Magus?

[davis]

I was listening to them this afternoon and bought the first two albums... er CDs. Got to hear their 3rd one soon.

[spacefreak]

I liked them in their first three albums where they toyed with a hybrid of stoner rock (early Orange Goblin comes to mind here), doom metal and 80s US influenced epic power stuff. For me their better albums is the wonderful Wolf´s Return; a minor classic that crushes in its raw, huge riffing metal destruction. Their fourth album Iron Will finds them freed from their earlier doom influences, changing direction to a more upbeat NWoBHM sound while retaining the strong and memorable songwriting of the previous album.

I was extremely deceived when they limited themselves entirely to a typical 80s anthemic power metal unit with next album Hammer Of The North and stopped following them since.

[davis]

I'm not really familiar with most of the bands of the NWoBHM, and those I do know I don't really like.

[Yves]

I'd recommend the above-mentioned "Wolf's Return" as well as "Monument". Those are the only 2 I own.

[davis]

I have Monument.

[Garden Dreamer]

I love JB's vocals on the Spiritual Beggars albums so I thought this band would be a slam-dunk. I owned all the Grand Magus albums at one time or another and none of them had staying power. They weren't bad, they just weren't great.

[davis]

I like them, but they lack a bluesy quality that I really like in a lot of music. e.g. I like Goatsnake more than I like Grand Magus, but GM is still worth listening to.